... While I cannot offer any ex planation of the musical over lap to which Mr Jenkins refer London Life, 12 November,, I do hope this clash of events will not prevent a good atten dance at the Albert Hall oi 1 December for Delius' Requiem. Those who hav thought of Delius only in term of his exquisite tone poem should not miss this opportur ity to hear one of his major works. Estelle Palmley, Rer ...

... I heartily agree with Princess Galitzine on women and work London Life, 12 November). Non-working wives, in their after-dinner chat, tend to put the boot in on their working married friends. As a young wife (27) whose work has involved tra velling, I've found the reaction to my lack of ability to join in baby- or gardening-type con versations particularly catty. I think housebound friends ...

... I am aware Roger Baker has had some bad publicity re cently, but now he is just shy ing off. In Does Travel Make You Go To The Dogs? nobody was rated to actually go to the dogs. Victoria Lawson, St John's Wood Road, NW8. ...

... The Hunt Ball season is in full swing just now with members showing amazing reserves of energy dancing until the small hours and then up (or, maybe, never to bed!) in time for the meet the same morning. The Fife Hunt Ball, held on a recent Friday evening in the County Buildings, Cupar, drew about 350 guests of whom quite a number were mounted next morning at Gilston, home of Mr. Mrs. Alan ...

... Among the 600 guests were many tenants and employees from both the Luss and Inveraray estates and some guests had come from America and Australia. The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Louise Clews Timpson, had flown from New York. A feature of the wedding reception, held in the Assembly Rooms, was an enormous three-tier wedding cake sur mounted by a model of Inveraray Castle. The Marquess and his ...

... Tin Be in tin Bonimt AM AUTG-CAUSRRIR. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Everyone in the motor world was more than delighted to receive the belated news of Lord Montagu's safety after all hope had been given up. Many obituary notices had appeared about him, and I had written one myself and I had that very rare and unusual feeling in a journalist supreme pleasure in scrapping my own copy ...

... TBe Bee in the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUSEKIE. By (Geraldl Bsss. MY DEAR TATLER, So, despite the barrage of blank cartridge from the two great fortified places of Printing House Square and the Carmelite Monastery, the edificial proscription of the R.A.C. as another Hotel Brum or a Hotel Brillat-Savarin (a la Lord Devonport) has been withdrawn, and the club's own suggestion for the extension of its ...

... OUR TEMHES ILETTER. MY DEAR TATLER, This has been a week full of comings and goings (mostly the latter), and I seem to have spent my time in seei 'g people off to the States and generally wishing them God speed. Miss Ryan got off safely after very nearly missing her train at the last moment, much to the alarm of her many friends who had come to wish her luck. She will, 1 understand, play as a ...

... Tlhie Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Geraldl Biss0 MY DEAR TATLER, What I feared all along has happened and we have been very circumscribed in our movements down at Funkhole-on-Sea by the illness of Lizzie, who had to go into hospital seven miles away. No sooner had her beloved master made good his attestation and donned the King's khaki than she began to pine visibly and some days ...

... TB Bee In the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSEEIE. By Gerald Biss0 MY DEAR TATLER, What a sound chap it wafe old David, wasn't it who wrote of wars and rumours of wars The super-censored daily papers are bad enough, but London is simply awful worse than the paper-boys who used to yell and sell their scares and wares in the streets in those distant days of the autumn of 1914, which in mental perspective ...

... The Bee ira the Bonmet AN AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Geraltd Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, We have just reached one of the hectic crises which from time to time arrest our andante existence at Funkhole-on-Sea and bring home to us the exigencies of war, which otherwise only reach us in the morning paper with our war egg, or the weekly household accounts, which show aeroplane tendencies of an alarming nature, ...

... Tlhie Bee in the Bonnet ABJ AUTO-CAUSERIE. B^ Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Did the new Big Man Controller Petrol Knight Jones Evan bach, as they would call him amongst his own people swack any of your undrawn petrol I trow not, for I know you too well to imagine you such an ass in these days as to leave one drop of your exiguous allowance of precious essence undrawn even at 7s. 4d. cash one ...